Accession number:
PML 22222.4
Uniform title:
Herbal
Published:
Germany , 1400-1500.
Description:
[6] leaves ; 29 cm
Notes:
Manuscript executed in the fifteenth century in Germany or the Lower Rhine.
Collation: [1¹⁰], 10 leaves, wanting leaves 7-10.
Chancery folio (27.8 x 19.7 cm). Paper with unidentified bull's head watermarks.
Blind ruling in 1 column, 14 cm wide, with varying line counts.
Begins: "Herba sigillum s[anc]te marie. Quecu[m]q[ue] p[er]sona crenata usum habuit[ur] comedendi radice[m] hui[us] herbe cu[m] ovis per dies 30 liberabi[li]. ..."
Text derives from an herbal in Pavia, see Bühler, "An anonymous Latin herbal."
Provenance:
Early provenance inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r of Defensorium fidei); Pierpont Morgan Library, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from Wilfred Voynich in January 1924.
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